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A jam submission

tiny COLONYView game page

A game where you control an ant colony to gather food, upgrading your nest and army, then defend against giant threats
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
visuals#1073.1824.500
theme#1452.8284.000
creativity#1542.8284.000
enjoyment#1692.4753.500
Overall#1712.5103.550
audio#2131.2371.750

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Developer

Instructions:

When each day starts, click "Collect" to go and collect food. The worker ant will go wherever you click and pick up food along the way.

Each food can be broken down into 5 crumbs, and each ant can only carry 1 crumb. Every time an ant collect a food crumb, you will receive the "Food" currency, and there is also a 30% chance that it will give a special material:

- Bread gives wheat, which can be used to upgrade future ants' max HP by 1

- Chips give salt, which can be used to upgrade future ants' attack by 1 but decrease max HP by 1

- Leaf gives leaf essence, which can be used to hatch leafcutter ants [tanky units]

- Dead mosquito gives blood essence, which can be used to hatch Dracula ants [lifesteal units]

- Apple gives apple seed, which can be used to hatch fire ants [deal burn DMG]

- Honeycombs give honey essence, which can be used to hatch wood ants [perform ranged attacks]

After collecting food crumbs, click on the ant nest for the worker ant to return the food to the nest. You can going back and forth to collect food as long as you still have stamina.

In the "Hatch" screen, you can hatch more worker ants to help you collect food faster, or hatch scout ants to spawn more food when you go out to collect, or hatch soldier ants / special ants to help you fight bosses. You can view your ant army size in the "Barrack" screen.

On day 7, you will fight an insect boss, so make sure to develop your ant army sufficiently to win!

You win the game if you survive week 2 but we haven't made a victory screen :(

Submitted(+1)

Very fun game, enjoyed it a lot! Gameplay loop is very enjoyable, Bosses are really cool and visuals are also really nice, my only complaint is the lack of audio and explanation at the beginning but either way, overall a really good game. Great job!

Developer

Thank you so much for the compliments :D. Glad you tried playing through 6 days before the bosses. We were rushed to make the game and lack the instructions. Let me make a comment on game guides.

Submitted(+1)

Nicee game but i couldn't figure out what to do, please add descriptions on how things work. thanks....

Developer

Thank you for trying. Let me add a guide